comparison of windows vs linux and mac

[yoshiserry]

I am contemplating using linux so that i can run all three main OS's. Windows and Mac on a linux.

But i wanted to know a comparison of the 3 OS's. And by this i mean a description of what you can do on all the OS's.

What you can do on all of them which is the same. For example manipulation of photos is basically the same, all OS's can do this.

But i also wanted to know what each operating system was best at, for example i think i heard that mac is very good for video editing, all though i am just starting it, but using windows.

And also the advantages of each OS, what only it can do. What makes it different?

[rave]

I've used all these operating systems. Windows (3.1 to XP), Mac OS (9.1 to OSX 10.3) and OpenSuse Linux. These are just my opinions:

Windows: it works. though not all the time it can really annoy you with things that rarely plague other OSes like viruses and keeping your system clean and in tip top condition. but on a VERY big plus side, tones of software and games are available. haven't tried vista and don't intend to.

OSX: its nice and easy. everything flows, just how it should be and expect it to. they do put a lot of thought into engineering their interface so you know exactly where things should be and how to get things working. some nice desktop effects as well. i never saw what the big deal is with photo-editing and video editing on the mac. im currently interning at an advertising company, adobe photoshop is exactly the same as on windows. the way mac handles window sizes might make it marginally more efficient especially if yyou are running illustrator, photoshop and other programs back to back. oh, and it hardly crashes. so you dont have to save your work every 2 minutes like on windows (so i've heard. my windows hasnt crashed for 3 months or so)

linux: for what you are currently interested in. linux is way bottom of your list. you can run certain professional programs (using wine i think). but hardly efficiently. linux runs on unix and so does the mac, so they are both EXTREMELY stable. linux can do everything else the other systems can do. some it does better. some it does so bad its embarrassing. compiz/berly 3D effects are really cool though

hey. if you want to try ALL these OSes. just get a mac. you can install and run all these natively now. hope this helps

[Mac Medic]

the only way I know of to run all 3 is to buy an intel based mac and run them natively. There are some workarounds for running os x on a pc but they only work with older versions of the os and they are painfully slow. I'm not sure that spending money on new hardware is in your plan so you may have to settle for Linux/windows and forego os x.

[mojo]

Yellow Dog linux runs just fine on powerPC macs.

[TimPoet]

I'm soooooo dying to afford a Mac. I am sick of the plague of WIndows! Aargh, it's driving me crazy. Windows is like an old, used car. It works, but it breaks down sooo many times it is maddening.

OS X, here i come!!!

[Horty]

Originally Posted by TimPoet I'm soooooo dying to afford a Mac. I am sick of the plague of WIndows! Aargh, it's driving me crazy. Windows is like an old, used car. It works, but it breaks down sooo many times it is maddening. OS X, here i come!!!

That's funny. I was a life-long Mac user until I ad to go XP for work reasons. My Macs, up through the G4's were frequent crashers all the way through OS9. OS X seems much more stable... but then XP hasn't crashed on me in ages.

[mokers]

Mac works great, doesnt have the flexibility of windows though. especially when installing various musical programs, as im a musician :P